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ABSTRACT Pregnant women traditionally have been assigned priority in the allocation of prevention and treatment resources during outbreaks of influenza because of their increased risk of morbidity and mortality The Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists expl...

ABSTRACT Health care providers occasionally may find that providing indicated even standard care would present for them a personal moral problema conflict of conscienceparticularly in the field of reproductive medicine Although respect for conscience is important conscientious refusals should be l...

ABSTRACT Recent legal actions and policies aimed at protecting the fetus as an entity separate from the woman have challenged the rights of pregnant women to make decisions about medical interventions and have criminalized maternal behavior that is believed to be associated with fetal harm or adve...

ABSTRACT The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ACOG has endorsed the Prudent Use statement from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine AIUM discouraging the use of obstetric ultrasonography for nonmedical purposes eg solely to create keepsake photographs or videos The A...